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| Criterion |  UX Design Customer Journey Canvas |  Decision Making Constraint Analysis |  Decision Making Decision Tree |  UX Research Customer Journey Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a journey needs to be understood across several phases, it arranges experience, touchpoints, and opportunities into one picture. It makes gaps and friction along the user path clear. | When an initiative stalls, the limit often lies not in the idea but in hard or soft boundary conditions. Constraint Analysis separates these limits and shows which of them can actually be shaped. | For decisions with follow-on paths and dependencies, a linear comparison is often not enough. A Decision Tree shows how options branch under conditions and which consequences hang on each branch. | When a user journey falls apart across many touchpoints, customer journey mapping makes the experience visible as a coherent arc. Phases, emotions, and breaks become legible enough to prioritize critical moments deliberately. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | 30-90 min | 30-90 min | 2-4 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 2-8 | 1-6 | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Customer Journey Canvas, Pain Points, Experience Opportunities | Constraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries | Decision Tree, Option Map, Assumption List | Journey Map, Pain-point List, Opportunity Backlog |
Tagsno overlap | JourneyCustomerService designCanvas | ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions | DecisionTreeOptions | JourneyServiceService design |